MN504 Networked Applications Management Assignment

Instruction: This is an individual assignment.

Total Marks:15 marks

Task: MN504 Networked Applications Management Assignment

Purpose of the assessment:

The purpose of this assignment is to develop skills in problem-solving, performance evaluation and deployment for networked applications. This exercise will provide scope to learn the working mechanisms of simulation tools. The student will develop skills of modeling critical distributed network system to simulate. It will also require analyzing capability to evaluate simulated results of networked application protocols. This exercise provides them the opportunity to demonstrate the problem-solving capability of distributed systems using modeling, simulation, and simulation result evaluation.

Guidelines:Your report should include the following:

• A cover page, identifying student (name and number), teaching staff, and assignment.
• The assignment must use 12 point font size minimum and at least single line spacing with appropriate section headings.
• Reference sources must be cited in the text of the report, and listed appropriately at the end in a reference list.
• It should follow standard academic reporting guidelines.
• The written report should be between 2-4 pages in length( excluding cover page and references)
• The page numbers of the assignment must include in each page.

Description of the assessment: JUNISOR Company was established in 2000 which offer a number of services such as web, email, file transfer, VoIP and video conferencing. Initially, the company had very few customers, so it provides all types of service from one server. Though different applications of QoS requirement are different, the company could provide very standard service to its customer. Initially, customers were very happy about the service. As the times goes, the number of customers increases gradually so the QoS in terms of delay, jitter, and throughput goes down significantly. In order to overcome the problem, the company took the decision to improve QoS. The major decision taken by the company is to move to distributed processing rather than centralized processing.

You have to analyze performance on simulation and answer the following questions in your report.

1. What are the mean response time of the centralized system and distributed processing of each type of application in three types of load?

2. Compare the load in terms of bytes/sec of a centralized system and distributed processing of each type of application by varying load.

Marking Rubric: MN504 Networked Applications Management Assignment